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How to Choose a Decent School
by Byrne Anderson November 29, 2019
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One of the most important decisions that you will have to make as a parent is choosing a viable school for your child. If you are living in a big city like Bangkok, you should know that there are hundreds of different options available to choose from. It's recommended that you select a school after doing a bit of research on your own. There are a number of major schools throughout Bangkok that you can choose from, so it's recommended that you take your time to evaluate your options. If you are enrolling your child from an early age, it's important that you take a few things into account. Here are some simple things that you should keep in mind when selecting a school for your child.
How far is the school from your workplace? It's important for you to make a decision after considering the long-term future of your kid. If you would prefer that your child stays in the school throughout their academic career, it's recommended that you consider the location of the school first and foremost. You will want to select a school that isn't located too far from your house or your workplace because it will make it easy for you to pick your kids up after school or drop them off. If you choose a school that's situated too far away, it's going to be difficult not only for you, but also for your kid on a regular basis. Therefore, evaluating the location of the school is very important.
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Checking out the campus building is also a very important idea. You will want to make sure that you visit the campus building to check whether the campus is well-developed and managed properly. The Loops campus buildings in Bangkok are works of art and are an excellent place for parents who are looking for a decent school for their kids. The campus buildings are beautifully designed and the school provides top of the line education to its students. You will want to visit the campus in person and take your kids along to see how they react to the environment. You will want to check whether the campus has its own playgrounds and other places where students can take part in extracurricular activities. It's a great place for learning with some of the best teachers in the city working at the school.
As a parent, you will obviously want your child to have the best possible education. However, that's easier said than done. It's important for you to make sure that you choose a school that falls within your budget. If you select a school that is more expensive, your budget will go out of control, and you won't be able to keep your kid in school for very long. Therefore, you have to consider the monthly fee as well. Obviously, apart from the tuition fee, there will be other expenses that you have to worry about too.
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Movies, Television, and Media
Inspirational Film Review of The Movie Camp
September 3, 2013 by Julie 4 Comments
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I was able to watch a copy of the movie, CAMP last week.
Nashville, TN – (June 28, 2013) – Word Films announces the August 27 nationwide DVD release of the inspirational film "CAMP." Inspired by true stories from camps for abused and neglected children, the film's writer and director, Jacob Roebuck, tapped into real-life events to acknowledge the power of the camp experience and the opportunity it provides to give unconditional love to those seemingly forgotten children who need adults in their lives. "CAMP" is the story of a deeply troubled boy, Eli (Miles Elliot, "The Mentalist"), and an apathetic investment advisor, Ken (Michael Mattera), who get paired together at a summer camp for foster kids and discover the meaning of unconditional love.
The first thing I noticed about the movie was that the camp it was being filmed at looked just like the camp I went to in high school. I did a search and found out it was…Hume Lake if anyone is familiar with that place. This was great because a lot of the places where it was filmed looked familiar to me. I almost want to say we stayed in one of the cabins that was used in the film.
Given the subject matter of this movie I knew it would be a good story. When I was in college I interned at a foster care agency and I heard about the types of homes the kids lived it. It is hard to imagine that parents would treat their children in such a way that they would have to be removed from the home. The foster kids in the movie reminded me of the kids I used to work with and how they just want to be loved and treated well.
I really admire the owners of the real life camp and what they are doing for these kids. After the movie is over you can hear some of the real life stories from former campers and counselors. A few of them have ended up adopting some of the children who attended the camp.
It can be easy to think our world is falling apart but it is nice that there are people out there that have stepped up to help children who need it.
You can now purchase this movie as it just came out on August 27th!
The film is rated PG-13 and has a running time of 111 minutes. For more information about "CAMP," Royal Family KIDS, Inc. and for a listing of upcoming engagements visit: www.campthemovie.com.
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Dance Your Cares Away With Fraggle Rock On Hulu
August 26, 2013 by Julie 3 Comments
Who grew up with Fraggle Rock? I can remember watching this show when I was younger. I have always been a fan of Jim Henson and I love it when my kids enjoy things that I did growing up. It is a special link between us and they love hearing that I did something as a kid that they do now. It does kinda blow them away that I didn't have the Internet when I was a kid 😉
On August 22nd, Hulu launched Jim Henson Family TV on Hulu Kids. There are now 10 different shows you and your kids can check out…
"Fraggle Rock" Four seasons, 96 episodes
"Fraggle Rock: Animated" One season, 13 episodes
"Jim Henson's Play-Along-Video" One episode
"Mopatop's Shop" One season, 32 episodes
"Jim Henson's Animal Show With Stinky And Jake" One season, 26 episodes
"The Hoobs" One season, 40 episodes
"Mother Goose Stories" One season, 13 episodes
"Secret Life of Toys" One season, 13 episodes
"Wubbulous World Of Dr. Seuss" Two seasons, 40 episodes
"Construction Site" Two seasons, 26 episodes
See anything you remember from when you were a kid?
A few days ago I decided to sign up for Hulu plus again. Because of this my kids can watch all these episodes commercial free. If you do not have Hulu plus you will still be able to watch five rolling, consecutive episodes of each show.
I put on Fraggle Rock on Friday afternoon and caught my two-year old dancing to it. He loved the music. My older boys were excited to watch too. I only wish their Dad was home to watch with them as he is also a big Jim Henson fan. I know he will enjoy watching a lot of these with the boys when he gets home.
So go grab your kids or your spouse and go watch some Jim Henson TV!
Filed Under: Movies, Television, and Media
Army Wives Season 7 Starts March 10th
March 5, 2013 by Julie 3 Comments
It is almost time ladies!!!
They Stood Together…Cried Together…But They Never Imagined Losing the One Who Held Them Together
On Sunday, March 10, the hit series Army Wives returns to Lifetime for its seventh season. AND THINGS HAVE CHANGED DRAMATICALLY. It's time to say goodbye to a major cast member and to welcome some new faces to Fort Marshall.
Here are some exclusive "behind the scenes" looks into this season through personal conversations with a few in the cast! Bet you didn't know…
Wendy Davis (who returns to the role of Joan Burton) is the complete opposite of Joan: "I am such a pushover as a mom…Last night I told my daughter to go to bed at 8:30, and at 10 she was still awake! Joan would never have that. Joan is very tunnel-visioned (sic) and I am not like that at all." Did you know that Joan defied expectations and rose through the ranks, becoming Fort Marshall's first African-American female lieutenant colonel — commanding more than 400 men?
Catherine Bell, back as Denise Sherwood, originally went to college to become a doctor: "I studied bio-medical engineering until I discovered modeling. I am a tomboy…I love cars and motorcycles and extreme sports." Did you know that Denise's character started out very reserved and unsure of what she wanted to do in life? Over the past six seasons the character has grown dramatically, and Denise is now much more in line with Catherine's personality.
Kelli Williams is reprising her role this season (Season 6 was her first!) as Jackie Clark. Kelli brings her experience of growing up in a very conservative household to her character: "I grew up going to country clubs…things that I don't respond to in my life now but are totally Jackie…so to prepare for the role, I just amp up the pearl-wearing!" Did you know that the fans gave Kelli a tough time about her character, they didn't trust her and didn't think she was fair with Claudia Joy? Kelli says she's the complete opposite of Jackie!
New to the cast this season is Torrey DeVitto as Maggie Hall. As we meet Maggie we will find that she, like lots of us, struggles to find herself. She left the Army to be a stay-at-home mom, and is having a difficult time with new roles in her life…mom to a blended family, wife to a new husband and a very different life at home compared with that of a soldier. To prepare for her new role, Torrey attended a day of Army physical training: "I didn't want to tell the guys, but I had to leave early because I thought I was going to throw up…my body was begging me to stop. I have always had such respect for people in the service, and I always knew it was not easy. I was never so aware of how strong you need to be mentally and physically!"
The Seventh Season of Army Wives Premieres on Lifetime, Sunday, March 10 at 9/8c. You can catch up with the ladies and watch full episodes of last season online!
In Season 7, a new tribe emerges from the shadow of tragedy. Maintaining the enduring premise of Army Wives, the audience will witness a remarkable group of women – some familiar, some new – form friendships that see them through the challenges of Army life as their husbands serve at a dangerous outpost in Afghanistan.
Who plans to watch?
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Army Wives on Reality TV
January 7, 2013 by Julie 2 Comments
If you haven't heard by now there is a new reality tv show on the OWN network called, Married to the Army: Alaska. It follows the lives of seven women from Fort Richardson, Alaska, who are married to soldiers of the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry. Their husbands deployed November of 2011, and are just now starting to return after almost a year in combat (from OWN)
I will admit I do like my reality TV although I don't watch too much of it anymore now that we cancelled Directv. I enjoy watching shows about other people and yes I am even a fan of some of the "Real Housewives" shows, as full of drama as they are. It can be really interesting to get to see into a person's life, especially if they are so different from you.
For the last few years I have even thought about how a reality show like that would work for Army wives. Would a show be able to capture the real people? Would it focus on just the drama? Would it be a good thing or a bad thing?
With the start of Married to the Army: Alaska we can see first hand how a reality show about Military wives is going to go. Now I have not seen the show yet so I am not going to say if it is good or bad. I have talked to a few people who have seen and I didn't hear a lot of positive reviews although some people did enjoy it.
I am not sure what to think about a show like this showing America what it is like to be an Army Wife. When it comes to the show Army Wives on Lifetime I do get questions about if that is what it is really like. People are curious about how we live our lives and how we are able to make it work through deployments and everything else. I am not sure if a reality show of this nature is the way to do that. I am not sure there is even a good way to do that other than knowing people personally that are going through a deployment or involved in Military life. That way they can see first hand what it is like without any of the drama.
I don't blame the network for making a show like this. I know they felt there is a market for it and maybe there is. But I am just not convinced it will be able to show everything or what it is really like. Another part of this is because different people have different experiences when it comes to the Military. Just in my close group of friends here in Campbell, we have all been through different types of experiences even if our husbands have been in the Army about the same amount of time.
What do you think? Do you think this show is a good way to show the public what it is like to be an Army wife? Have you seen the show? What do you think?
Filed Under: Military Life, Movies, Television, and Media
A&E's Be the Boss Series Premiere and $100 Giftcard to the Melting Pot Giveaway
November 30, 2012 by Julie 82 Comments
The series premiere of Be the Boss will air, Sunday, December 2 11/10 C on A&E!
A&E presents the new original real life series Be the Boss, a competition-based series that pits two employees of a franchise-based company in the battle of a lifetime, competing for the chance to become the owner of their very own franchise.
From the Emmy-award winning creators of Undercover Boss, Be the Boss faces off two lower-level employees from the ranks, giving them the chance at what they think is a big promotion. In each episode, the CEO summons two deserving candidates to the company headquarters and subsequently puts them through a series of challenges to test their mettle at being in a senior management role. Both employees battle to prove they should earn the promotion, but they're in for the shock of their lives when they discover that an even greater opportunity is ultimately at stake – the keys to their very own franchise! With franchise fees often running into the hundreds of thousands and sometimes even exceeding one million dollars, Be the Boss offers one of the largest prizes in all of television…and the promotion goes to the runner-up!
Iconic American companies featured in the first season include Complete Nutrition, Auntie Anne's, Signal 88 Security, Molly Maid, Jazzercise. and The Melting Pot.
Be the Boss is produced for A&E Network by Studio Lambert. Executive Producers for Studio Lambert are Stephen Lambert, Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, Brien Meagher and Phil Lott. Executive Producers for A&E are Elaine Frontain Bryant, Drew Tappon, Nicole Reed and Tom Moody.
You can view a clip of Be The Boss here 🙂
This show looks like it is going to be a great addition to the A&E lineup! It is going to make people very happy when they find out they have won their own franchise! There are a lot of different types of reality shows out there but my favorites are the ones that help others and just make you feel good when you watch them.
Here is a great blog post about it… http://www.lifetimemoms.com/lifetime-shows-blogs/whos-the-boss-i-am-sort-of
One of the brands featured on the show is the Melting Pot!
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How would you like to win a $100 gift card to the Melting Pot? I will be giving away one to one of my readers 🙂 Just fill out the Rafflecopter to enter!
Remember to tune in on Sundays at 11/10 Central time on A&E!
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Steel Magnolias on Lifetime Tv
September 17, 2012 by Julie 3 Comments
Did you know that Lifetime Television is about to release a new version of Steel Magnolias? I was super excited to hear this as I am a fan of the original with Julia Roberts. I was given the opportunity to watch the movie and Ben and I did so last weekend. After we watched the new version we decided to watch the older version because it had been a while since I had seen it. Here is some information on the new one which will air Sunday October 7th, at 9pm/8pm Central on Lifetime.
ALL-STAR CAST FEATURES QUEEN LATIFAH,
PHYLICIA RASHAD, ADEPERO ODUYE, CONDOLA RASHAD
WITH JILL SCOTT AND ALFRE WOODARD
Film Executive Produced By Award Winning Duo CRAIG ZADAN and NEIL MERON
QUEEN LATIFAH, SHAKIM COMPERE and SHELBY STONE Also Executive Produce
Film Directed By KENNY LEON
Steel Magnolias chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs ad tragedies, they congregate at Truvy's beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children – and hair and nails – all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women.
Queen Latfiah will play "M'Lynn," Phylicia Rashad as "Clairee," Adepero Oduye as "Annelle," Condola Rashad as "Shelby, " Jill Scott as "Truvy" and Alfre Woodard as "Ouiser."
My Thoughts: I thought it was great! It truly was an updated version of the original. Most of the dialog is the same and the new actors did a great job of becoming the original characters. They did update things for the times. The original was in the 1980s so instead of talking about a VCR they would mention a PlayStation. Although they all did a wonderful job I especially loved Queen Latifah's role as M'Lynn. She brought all the right emotion to her role.
What I love about Steel Magnolias is that it will make you laugh and it will make you cry. This movie didn't disappoint.
So go now and set your DVRs if you have one. You don't want to miss this!
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Army Wives Season 6 Episode 6 Review
April 4, 2012 by Julie 2 Comments
Did you get a chance to watch Army Wives Season 6 Episode 6 yet? You can watch online at Mylifetime.com. If you haven't seen it yet, don't read any further. I am going to be talking about it and don't want to spoil it for you!
First of all, what do you all think of Roxy as FRG leader? I think she will be good at it. Not sure how I feel about the dress code thing. I get wanting people to dress nice and not trashy but I really didn't think Roxy dressed too trashy. We were talking about FRGs and dress codes on my Facebook page and a few of us thought that if FRGs had dress codes they might turn more people away. Since most FRGs are hurting for more people this wouldn't be a good thing. On the other hand I don't think I have seen too much inappropriate dress at FRG meetings in real life so maybe it isn't even a huge problem to begin with?
David and his HIV. What an emotional part of the episode. I felt for both sides. In the end though, after looking at the facts they presented it seems that David is safe to be around. I like how Roland brought up the safety of his own daughter too.
I really liked the scene between Roxy and the new girl. They were able to connect a little bit. I think there are probably a lot of Army Wives or Military Wives who are newly married, now in a new state, far from what is normal to them. It can be really difficult to get use to everything. Hopefully she found a friend in Roxy.
What did you think of the episode? I miss Pamela. I miss her personality. It just added something extra to the show.
Filed Under: Military Life, Movies, Television, and Media Tagged With: army wives
The Client List with Jennifer Love Hewitt
I am a big fan of Jennifer Love Hewitt. I use to watch Kids Incorporated way back when and she was on that show. I loved Ghost Whisperer too so when I saw she was in a new show I knew I wanted to at least check it out. Lifetime sent me a preview of the first and second episodes of her new show, the Client List.
Award nominee Jennifer Love Hewitt, officially opens for business on Sunday, April 8, at 10:00pm ET/PT. Golden Globe winner Cybill Shepherd (Cybill), Emmy
®Award-winning actress Loretta Devine (Grey's Anatomy) and Colin Egglesfield (Something Borrowed) also star. Based on the network's hit 2010 original movie, Lifetime has ordered 10 episodes of The Client List. The Client List is about Texas housewife "Riley Parks" (Hewitt), who, after being deserted by her husband, is left in serious financial straits and takes a job at a seemingly traditional day spa in a neighboring town. But when she realizes some of her co-workers also provide other services, Riley must make the difficult decision whether or not to embrace an opportunity for her to resolve her financial hardships. The series will follow Riley as she delicately balances a moral conflict between two starkly different lives — one as a single mother in a conservative town struggling to provide for her family and the other as a savvy and ambitious businesswoman working with a raucous, sexy and unpredictable group of women. As Riley becomes more involved, she struggles while working in secrecy knowing her family and friends would disapprove of her decision. Shepherd stars as "Linette," Riley's mother; Devine plays "Georgia," the spa's feisty and disorganized owner; and Egglesfield portrays Riley's brother-in-law "Evan."
The Client List is executive produced by Hewitt, Dannielle Thomas (The Client List), Howard Braunstein (The
Client List, The Informant!), Jordan Budde (GCB, 90210) and Efrem Seeger (Queer as Folk, The Fresh Prince
of Bel-Air), with Fedora Films and Jaffe/Braunstein producing, in association with Sony Pictures Television.
In its July 2010 world premiere, the Lifetime Original Movie The Client List, for which Hewitt received a
Golden Globe nomination in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for
Television category, averaged 3.9 million Total Viewers. The movie was produced by Fedora Films and JaffeBraunstein Entertainment.
My Thoughts: I was pleasantly surprised by this show. I honestly wasn't sure what to expect. I knew I liked Jennifer Love Hewitt but was unsure on what the show was about. I liked how they focus a lot on her family. Mostly her mom and her situation with her husband but they also show her as a mom who really cares about her kids. She tries to make the right decisions about things but it is really hard based on what she is dealing with. There was also a little bit of mystery surrounding the husband that might be something they talk about all season long. Cybill Shepherd did great as Riley's mom too. I am looking forward to more episodes! I know the subject matter might turn some people away but I felt it was presented in a classy way. And the show felt to me that its focus was going to be on Riley's struggles and how she was trying to do the best for her family.
The show premieres Sunday, April 8 at 10/9c on Lifetime!


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The 'Father Of The Bride' Reunion Is Happening — And All The Main Cast Members Are Involved
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It's been 25 years since the premiere of "Father of the Bride Part II" in 1995. The original "Father of the Bride" in that franchise, which was a remake of the 1950 film by the same name, premiered four years previously in 1991. Now, fans will get a chance to catch up with the Banks family a quarter of a century later with the Netflix special "Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)."
It debuts on Netflix as well as the streaming giant's YouTube and Facebook pages on Sept. 25 at 6 p.m. ET.
Steve Martin reprises the titular role of George Banks. Co-stars Diane Keaton (Nina Banks), Kimberly Williams-Paisley (Annie Banks), Kieran Culkin (Matty Banks), Martin Short (Franck Eggelhoffer) and George Newbern (Bryan MacKenzie) are back for the reunion as well.
On Sept. 22 and 23, Netflix first hinted the special was coming through daily tweets. Then, on Sept. 24, Netflix tweeted out a short teaser video for the reunion with the caption, "The Banks family is back for a very special event! Premiering TOMORROW at 3pm PST/6 pm EST on Netflix, YouTube, and Facebook":
The Banks family is back for a very special event! Premiering TOMORROW at 3pm PST / 6pm EST on Netflix YouTube and Facebook pic.twitter.com/3GS0nu9eR3
— Netflix (@netflix) September 24, 2020
After a montage of clips from the first two movies, the trailer cuts to the exterior of the Banks' home in 2020, and Keaton can be heard calling Martin's character to join the family, saying, "Matty said it was important!"
Maybe the younger brother has a big announcement this time around! The "mini-movie," as Martin called it in a tweet, takes place in the present-day during the pandemic as the family has a virtual meeting. The actor promised some major surprises.
Nancy Meyers, who wrote the first two films, teased about the reunion in a Sept. 10 Instagram post in which she shared a poster from the original movie featuring Williams-Paisley and Martin, writing, "If he thought a wedding was a lot, how would he react to 2020? Coming soon to the phone in your hand!"
The reunion special will benefit World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit organization created by celebrity chef Jose Andres in 2010 that provides meals in the wake of natural disasters
Also, a new reboot of "Father of the Bride" is in development at Warner Bros, according to Collider. It will have a more diverse, mostly Latinx cast and is said to be more of a romantic comedy than the past movies.
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The Tour Montparnasse
Nouvelle AOM wins the international architectural competition !
On 19 September 2017, representatives of the Tour Montparnasse co-ownership syndicate named Nouvelle AOM as winner of the international architectural competition. This final culmination of the competition marks the beginning of the next phase in the history of this important building.
The aim of the competition was to give the Tour Montparnasse a strong, innovative, dynamic and modern identity, at the same time as leading by example in successfully addressing all the goals of user accessibility, comfort and energy performance. By putting forward a scheme that successfully balances all these challenges, Nouvelle AOM has succeeded in envisioning the Tower for the 21st century; a scheme characterised by its innovation and its influence on an entire neighbourhood and the wider context of Paris and its status as a capital city.
Nouvelle AOM is a consortium of French architects that includes Franklin Azzi, Fréderic Chartier, Pascale Dalix, Mathurin Hardel and Cyrille Le Bihan. In their own words:
When we took up the challenge of this exciting competition, our focus was on revealing the beauty of the Tour Montparnasse from the inside out through the prism of completely new uses and achieving a bioclimatic transformation of its facade. We wanted to establish the Tower definitively as an icon for the 21st century energy revolution.
For full information on the renovation scheme
The Nouvelle AOM partners in the office rented on the 44th floor of the Tour Montparnasse to design the project.
Left to right: Pascale Dalix, Franklin Azzi, Mathurin Hardel, Cyrille Le Bihan and Frédéric Chartier.
© Nouvelle AOM / Alexandre Tabaste
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Q: What is --data-dir=${PWD} in my tutorial instructions? I am following instructions in a tutorial.
Download the CIFAR-10 dataset and generate TFRecord files using the provided script. The script and associated command below will download the CIFAR-10 dataset and then generate a TFRecord for the training, validation, and evaluation datasets.
The command that I am supposed to run is:
python generate_cifar10_tfrecords.py --data-dir=${PWD}/cifar-10-data
For the {PWD} portion am I supposed to keep it {PWD} or am I supposed to change it to a working directory of my choosing?

A: The ${PWD} is a variable substitution of the shell and instructs the shell to insert, instead of this string, the value of the "environment variable" PWD which is always the absolute path of the directory you are currently in and therefore contains the same string you get when running
user@host$ pwd

on the command-line.
If your data is (to be) located in a sub-directory cifar-10-data under the directory you are running the command from, you can keep it literally. If not, you should instead replace it with the path to the data you want to apply your script to (or the path you want the data to be downloaded to; you should find the exact meaning of the path in the documentation of the script).
In principle, prepending a path with ${PWD}/ should not be necessary unless the command you are invoking requires absolute pathnames (which, of course, may be true in your case).

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'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip': EW review
By Kyle Anderson
Updated December 16, 2015 at 10:12 PM EST
There's a whole genre of film that an esteemed colleague of mine calls "Slang & Fart." It's a particularly insidious brand of children's entertainment that tends to be built around jokes that are either basely scatological or centered on the idea that it's inherently funny to see an anthropomorphic critter toss out words like "fleek" or "jiggy." It's a remarkably lazy approach to writing that seems to bore even the least discerning kids.
Even with those low standards in mind, The Road Chip feels shockingly slight. The fourth entry in the Alvin and the Chipmunks series (a franchise that has grossed an alarming half-billion dollars) follows the titular trio on a quest from Los Angeles to Miami, where they want to prevent father figure Dave (Jason Lee) from proposing to paramour Shira (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) in order to avoid hanging with her mildly evil son Miles (Josh Green). Along the way, they run afoul of a bumbling Air Marshall (Tony Hale) and perform a whole bunch of squeakily-remixed pop songs.
Thanks to some shoddy-looking animation and only the vaguest semblance of a plot, The Road Chip feels like a rush job, crafted to fan the flames of an inexplicably efficient (and effective) gravy train, seemingly released this weekend to serve as a safety net parents who want to take their tykes to the cinema but didn't think to buy The Force Awakens tix in advance. Those parents might want to consider another screening of The Good Dinosaur, as there's nothing here for them save for an incredibly surreal cameo that makes you believe there's a subversive version of an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie that could work in the right hands. Most importantly, though, there doesn't seem to be a lot here for the flick's target audience—the only thing that impressed the multitude of youths in my screening room was some game physical comedy care of the better-than-this Hale. They were otherwise unmoved by the parade of flatulence and slightly dated pop culture references, meaning The Road Chip fails to even cross to the low bar of Slang & Fart movies—though, in its defense, it's also barely a movie. C–
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10201/STORY CONTENT
STORY CONTENT
Rogue's Room
Remy calls Rogue while being chased by unknown mutants. He's shot and taken to the X-Men base. Cryptic messages.
Remy LeBeau, Rogue
After the Snow Olympics, Remy had to slipped out into New York proper to meet with some contacts. While he wasn't sure what he was going to do with the ashes he'd collected, he knew that keeping them around the Mansion was going to be no good for anyone... especially not him. The fence he'd been working with wasn't, himself, magical in nature... he had a great many friends who were. Not to mention all the very powerful underworld figures who owed him or just wanted to get on his good side.
As long as The Cajun had that trinket, the longer everyone could potentially be in danger.
That was several hours ago.
Roughly 5p EST Rogue receives a call from a number she's never seen before... If she doesn't answer, there's a voice message.
Clopping of boots on pavement, then:
"Chere.. it Remy..." His voice sounds like he's tired, in pain, or both. "I'm in trouble."
After the snow olympics at Xaviers, Rogue and Jean had their skate-off on the Breakstone lake, iced over. They did epic battle, the kind of which few had ever seen before.
Once the snow settled though, Rogue was back in her room beside the fireplace, with a cup of cocoa and her tablet computer, tapping away and reading social media...
When her phone rang, she answered it. She heard his voice, and her brows narrow at him.
"You're in trouble? What happened?" She asks now, setting her tablet computer aside and tossing the woven blanket off her legs. She stands up and moves to the closet, Jeepers looking up from his dog bed, he jumps up and walks after her, watting his tail.
"People found m-" The sounds of gunshots ring out, people screaming, and more feet smashing pavement. "I gotta go, I send you location... got to lose dese guys!" The phone disconnects and Remy's running. Leaping up the side of a fence, he twists over the top and gorilla rolls on the other side. Even with his injury, which he clutches while he runs, he's still got enough adrenoline pumping through his body to get away from them... if he can just get to an building.
The phone he'd been using was dropped when he scaled the fence. So when he reaches down to grab it, he curses inwardly and shoulder smashes into an old apartment building. Charging a card between his fingers, he hurls it backwards to create a small cave-in to give himself some space... and to find a phone to call Rogue.
This time, when he calls, it's from a computer... skype.. his face is sweaty and there's some blood on his cheek. "Can't talk long... in apartment in Harlem. Been shot..." He straightens enough to move his hand back away from his abdomen, which is oozing blood around his fingers. "Bring medi-...cal..."
He falls forward then and smashes through the table, knocks the computer over, and lands it laying with the camera facing him.
When Rogue re-emerged from her closet she had on her green and gold bodysuit, pulling it up over her shoulders, and then zipping it up over her chest. She throws her jacket on, as Jeepers runs around her from behind, excited like he thinks they're going on a walk or something.
Rogue gets the second message as she pulls her hair out of her jacket and lets it fall behind her shoulders. "Jesus, Remy, now what?" She asks, not expecting a response. She grabs a medical kit in a backpack and throws it on over her shoulders as she makes for the window. She tells the dog he has to stay, which makes him lower his head and walk over to his doggy bed to flop down upon it, then the Belle is out the window and flying off, while sending a message to Jean about something being up...
She's headed straight south of Westchester toward upper Manhattan and Harlem there-in...
Managed, through his hazy stare, to send her a location in the chat function of the video program. Then crawls towards the bed in the ratty little apartment to pull off his shirt so he can get a better look at the extent of the damage. There are still people around trying to find him, but it's a needle in a hay-stack. So he's got some time. And he knows that Rogue is flying, so she should be here before they find him.
OR he bleeds out.
Which looking at the wound is something he's definitely concerned about.
Not that it's the first time he's been shot, of course. Play stupid games, win stpuid prizes, they say...
But this is really not how he wants to go. Holding a dirty bed sheet to his wound... he sinks down and stares up at the ceiling. "Altruism is da work of the devil."
He's on the seventh floor of the apartment building. He gave her a rough indication of which room, but he wasn't exactly sure himself... so...
Rogue flies as fast as a jet when she reaches top speeds, but rarely ever has to go that fast. She's never flown over the oceans, as she doesn't want to get tired and have no where to land, so rarely does she 'open up with her speed.
This time she opens up.
She flies at such tremendous speed that her jacket nearly flies right off her shoulders, requiring her to do the fist-forward 'Superman position in the sky!
Harlem, not too hard to spot, there's a few bars there she likes too... She finds the apartment building in short order, and hovers seven floors up, with her phone out now...
She whispers 'lumos' in to it, causing the flashlight to come on (It's a Harry Potter easter egg on Android phones).
So the Belle starts flying past windows, shining her light inside them to try and spot Remy... or at least get his attention to shout out.
When she finally finds him, she just pulls the window up, causing the lock to snap off and bounce across the floor with a soft metal clink. She puts her right leg in through the open space, then sweeps the rest of her body down and inside. The backpack and medpack come off and out right quick, as she rushes to his side at the bed.
Her skills she took from Carol include field-medic training, which thusly includes some basics on getting a bullet out, and treating a wound...
With gloves off, Rogue flips a bedside lamp on, then goes to work on him. "What, the hell happened?" She says to him at his side.
Remy isn't on deaths door-step or anything, but he can see it down the hall. The bullet hit him in a pretty bad spot. Not necessarily for organs, so much as a lot of bleeding, which is the main factor here. That and that there's no exit wound. His armor wasn't good enough to keep it from penetrating, but it slowed it down enough from blowing his back out...
The double edged sword.
Seeing the light, he brings his hand up to cover his eyes and waves her in. Leaning against the foot of the bed so he can see the front door. Just on the off chance she wasn't the first one to find him, he was ready for his last stand off.
Thankfully it is her.
"Long story..." Breathing slowly, he pulls the blanket away from his abdomen to show her the gushing wound. "Try to get rid of something... but da people I 'spose to give it to already dere waiting for me, no.. Caught me off guard. I think I slippin' a little. Never use to happen.."
His head lulls back to let her work. Black red eyes rolling over to stare at the far wall.
"Uh huh..." Rogue says in her naturally husky voice as she goes to business now.
She uses a numbing spray to lessen some of the pain, then tells him to hold still...
What happens next is just a side effect of having a girlfriend with super strength.
She takes her gloves off, then slips her fingers inside his wound... She looks up at his face as she pushes them in deeper until she feels the bullet. "I've got it." She quietly tells him before she says. "I'm going to count to three, okay?" She says with a little breath. "One..." Heartbeat. "Two..." Heartbeat.
Obviously there's no three.
She just pulls the bullet out, fast and quick! She tosses it behind her, then goes to look down at the wound with her flashlight.
"There's no fragments. It didn't break up, that I can see. I'm gonna seal it up, then fly you back to the school so we can get some better help..."
And thusly that is precisely what she starts to do with blood cleaning and bandaging.
Remy's pale and clammy, but he trusts Rogue's abilities enough that he doesn't complain when it's obvious exactly what she's about to do. Obviously, he's not thrilled. Having someone's fingers in his guts, even hers, isn't on his kinks list tonight, but neither is dying. At least it's Rogue. He nods silently to her, braces himself, and is glad for once that there's no Three.
That base, while the best one, definitely would have led to him tensing up and could have caused more harm to his poor insides. Even still, he has to bite down on the blanket he'd been using to stim the blood to keep from shouting out. Which would draw the attention of the people looking for him.
It is through willpower alone that he doesn't pass out. It hurts.
Once he's sewed up and bandaged, he tries to pull himself up, but immediately regrets it. The Adrenoline has run its course through him, so there's very little strength left in his body. Which is a terrible shame, really, because there's suddenly a very brisk knock on the door. "OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR, we're looking for someone inside."
By the look in his eyes, Remy really doesn't want her to let Avon in.
Rogue has him sealed up with another fancy type of spray that the X-Men have in their medikits. She has him bandaged up as well when he starts to sit up. Lastly, she reaches in to her pack and pulls out a big bottle of...
Jack Daniels. She puts it up against his chest, and says. "Take a big swig. Take five." She says with a grin right before the door is so rudely knocked upon, and the voice makes it clear something on the other side isn't kosher.
Rogue, meanwhile, stands up, and looks down at him, her hands at her sides balling up in to fists. "Wait here." She tells him. "I'm gonna handle our guests..."
As she starts to turn, Remy will know what is coming next.
A Rogue cannonball special.
In the form of her green and gold suited body lunging and bulling THROUGH the door, right out in to the hallway! She sends the door flying away in pieces, and anything on the other side of it too!
"You rang?" The Belle says as she floats there now just outside their room.
"You're a beautiful, lovely creature, Anne Marie.." Remy says affectionately when she presses that bottle of Jack Daniels to his chest, uncapping it with an eagerness to guzzle his fair share of numbing liquid down his throat. Uncaring of the burn.. Some drizzles down his cheek and he wipes it off. Safe in the knowledge that Rogue's on the case now.
The 4 men on the other side... the royal men because only 3 of them actually are... stare the woman who just crashed through the wall. Two of them are holding pistols, one of them was the guy who was knocking on the door and is now getting himself up from being slammed against the wall by the force of it.
The other two are holding a whole different kind of weapon. One of them has claws extended from their fingers, that's the woman. A short Asian gal who bares a striking resemblance to Psylocke, only shorter.. and without her flare for purple.
The other turns and looks like a combination of Wolverine and Bobby Drake. Stocky and short with Bobby's tiny little head and small frame. And there's black anti-matter energy boiling around his fists. "Who the fuck are you... We're looking for the Cajun." Says the other who holds a gun... an SMG of some kind. "Let us have him and this doesn't have to get ugly."
Rogue flaots there with one leg extended down and the other with her knee up horizontally out from her waist. Her fists are balled up on either sides of her chest and she is running her green eyes over the people gathered up out here.
She looks to the one who spoke and just shows him a smile. "Get ugly? Look at ya'll. It's been ugly since the whole lot of ya crawled outta the monsters ya call 'mom'. Like, I'm surprised the Doctahs didn't put ya down immediately, t'spare the world from this level'a ugly!"
With that lovely set of words spoken, Rogue starts by slamming her body right in to the man with the gun, then tries to crush the weapon with her right hand as she swings her legs around to kick, or distract, or 'just generally fuck with' some of the others in the hallway!
These aren't chumps by any means, but they're use to dealing with people like Remy. Powered, capable, but not super strong and fast like Rogue. The one she initially attacks is knocked back into the wall and his gun is destroyed beneath her grip. Likewise, Logbby comes rushing at her with his anti-matter fists and catches a kick to the side of the head that spins him right off his feet onto the ground like some kind of Kung Fu movie.
Edwina Scissorhands swipes at Rogue, moving quickly, and ducking side to side as her claws sweep across. She's growling and snarling, trying to catch hold of any flesh at all. These are not adamentium though.
Meanwhile, the last guy is making to run into the door... Something small and glowing purple hits him right in the face before he even clears the threshold and knocks his feet clear out from under him.
"Stay on your side..." Remy says from the bed, hunched over with one hand on his wound and, after throwing the remote that he charged with kinetic energy, the other holding the bottle.
Rogue just smashes that gun, then tosses the guy aside before she sweeps her body around to face the one with claws! Her fists go up, and she shields herself from the attacks with her forearms, leaving her suit sliced open, but her skin okay! Regular metals not being a big deal for her level of defense!
"Ain't you a darlin'." Rogue says to the Notsylocke.
"Why, you're like an angry little kitty, who didn't like havin' her belly rubbed!"
The southern gal then jams her right fist out to try and punch the clawed woman right in her stomach!
Poor kitty.
She juked and jived, but she could not avoid the concussive force of a fist in her tummy. It is, as they say, ironic. That the very same thing Rogue has said caused this vixen such anger is the self same thing that now causes her to be breathless. A belly rub. Albeit one with a great deal more force behind it!
She literally folds over Rogue's knuckles and grabs feebly to try and keep from falling... but she's going down.
All of them are in some form of anguish. Including Remy and excluding Rogue.
"Every'ting good out dere, chere?" He knows the answer. Limping slowly across the room to lean against the door jam. Now with enough alcohol running through him that the pain is subside just so that he can move without wincing every three inches.
Rogue had trained long and hard to know how to punch standard humans with enough force to hurt them, but not put her fist through them. this leaves her often having to test what a person can take if they clearly are a mutant like this girl was. Thankfully, in this instance, giving her the 'Mike Tyson' level of force was enough to bull her over. But Rogue didn't stop there. With torn sleeves, she just tosses the woman down the hallway to make her roll and hopefully further keep her from getting up, down with the other person Rogue sent away.
Remy's words has the hair-tossled, Belle turning around again. She breaks after a moment to smile at him before going to help him.
"Yeah... we're good here. Lets get you the hell out, an' back t'Base." She tells the man, moving to hook an arm around him, and one of his around her shoulders.
He's surely used to flying Air Rogue by now too, though doing it in the dead of Winter is no pleasant ride!
Especially since he forgot to put his shirt back on.
We'll blame the alcohol.
His nipples is all ripe by the time the get back to the mansion... and he's shivering like a leaf because it is a well known fact that Remy's do not do well in the cold. He is a swamp child. The muggy gross heat of the bayou is what he thrives in.
Wobbling a little, he rights himself once they land. The coat is pulled tighter around him, half leaning against the Southern Bell for support with a glassy look in his eyes. Part blood loss and part intoxication because of blood loss. "I tell ya tha whole story, if ya want to hear."
Rogue has to take him in to the X-Base through a 'secret' entrance. But when they arrive in the sterling silver corridors, she floats along with him toward the medical room. Their boots touch down upon the floor and she walks him inside before finding a bed for him.
His words make her show a soft smile before she helps cover him up, because it was damn cold out there, even if it didn't effect her like it does him.
"Later." Rogue says. "I'm gonna get ya fixed up first, then we'll worry about what happened, okay?" She says before she leans down to kiss his forehead. "I'm glad ya called me. We gotta get you a god damn trackin' chip like Jeeps has." She comments before using the group emergency to call out for a doctor.
Hank is likely around, right? Who knows!
Once at the medical bed, Remy falls onto it. He's sapped of his strength and barely has enough needed to keep him on his feet, let alone move around. So he just lays there on his side grimacing and rubbing at his abdomen where he was shot. "We don't got a lot of time..." He says in a voice that's getting quieter. Between the pain, the sudden rush of adrenoline that has now faded and left him empty, and the alcohol?
He'll be out before the lights are.
"Gotta get rid of it before dey find out where I am..."
With that cryptic message, he passes out again.
Best time if ever to put in a tracking chip.
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In some cases, I get why gear stats are in PVP, like take the Division, their single player and multiplayer is seamless, doesn't make it any better for the poor so and so that gets matchmaked with groups whose gear is 150 higher than his and gets kicked from group or the one that solos and runs into that group, but it is the way it is. But in a game like For Honor where there is not that integration, I do not believe that an advantage for having played the game or the character in use longer than the opponent is a good thing. Cosmetically, sure, give players more options for that commitment and time, not a problem at all with that, but while the devs have lowered top gear attack and defense, it is an issue of their own making. Pulling a number out of the air here but if I, in top gear, need two hits less to kill Mr Joined In The Free Weekend wearing grey gear and I can survive two more hits from him, that is four hits total. Then when you take into consideration refined gear that feels like a stealth tier raise, right now I don't care about refined gear but if they keep adding levels to it then people are going to need to start caring and by that time it will be rep 11 or 12 per character. I have heard arguments before that some characters are so weak they need the advantage from the gear but gear should not be used as a balancing tool especially when it comes to fighting less experienced players.
This ties in with something that players bring up every couple months or so, single pick. As it stands with matchmaking before character selection that is not a thing that is in any way fair on people coming new into the game. Because not only are they at the very least seven reps behind others but they are then expected to do it four times in order to guarantee their character, which by the by means that either they will spend four times longer getting four into that gear tier at the same time or as soon as they finish one they are going to be handicapped again and have to start again from the bottom. The devs are adding things that help with xp and the news of a whole week of double xp is great to hear but it feels like the longer the game goes on the less friendly it is to new people who are already going to have to build PvP skills and the more unfriendly to new players suggestions like this get. Even if gear score were not a thing, we would be hindering new players by making them have to race to get their preferred and perhaps only hero they have experience in at a time that they are already disadvantaged just for not having the in game experience.
Personally what I would like to see is rep levels only making a cosmetic difference (and devs have said that they don't want gear to be as much a factor as it has been, if it is no difference that fixes the issue) and character selection before matchmaking, this is a lot more feasible than it used to be now that the stability is in. Speaking on a personal level if I wanted to play orochi right after the rework or a new character on launch day I would not mind waiting an extra couple of minutes for a game to open up because I know I will get through my matches when I get them. It would impact groups who want to use say four lawbringers in PvP but outside of that it would be a fair way of putting in a feature people are requesting without hindering the choice of others. As an added option, if and when the player base supports it, it could even be split in such a way that each team has a vanguard, a heavy, an assassin and a hybrid to make the teams balanced, though that might be one step too far for groups, but certainly a pug team might find help in covering all the bases like this and it would help people interested in learning one role whether dps or tank.
I believe devs just not sure that cosmetics will be enough reward to leveling character. And change numbers a lot easier, than add new visuals for progress, not steel.
While for me new visual blade is a better stimulus to progress, I think in For Honor a lot players just don't care about actual look, but really care about how strong they want to be. I hope a little number of refined geared guys around matches means player now less intrested in gear stats. But skeptic inside me sure that happend because refind just simply do not worth it.
I personaly prefer to try different characters, so I see a lot situations when gear stats could be a problem. Let's say, as Shinobi I could use all my skills in a fight, but when I (23 gear) play agains enemy (180 gear) a single mistake enough to loose all health in couple lucky hits. While I successfully attack again and again deal almost zero dmg.
All this remind me funny story, that happens...I believe in season 2.
I tried PK this days, and than met LB, that have full gear (130, If I correct). I mssed first top light, than start to attack, almost took 3/4 of his health bar, but then some texture glitch and I got top heavy that instantly killed me.
And he made some ignorance insult in the chat, so I answered like "It's just gear, that's why you killed me". And than I got most funny and unlogic dialogue in FH!
me: "It's just gear, that's why you killed me"
LB: "Gear means nothing in this game"
me: "But you killed me with a single heavy"
LB: "Of course! I got full dmg bonus in my gear!"
To be honest, I think that gear is to weak at the moment.
It is authentic that the effectivness of gear can vary a whole lot, and I don't want my royal golden halberd be like a usual halberd.
But the devs are actually reducing the stat system even more to make it more newby-friendly.
I am clearly against this trend, but I can't change a thing.
Good, gear shouldn't be a major factor unless there is a consistent way to matchmake players with similar gear scores together, you want the games player base to grow and survive, right? It won't grow if you're going around 2 hitting everyone in grey gear that by all rights you shouldn't be matched against.
Stat altering gear should stay in MMOs and out of small scale brawler/fighting action games.
I wouldn't mind if they introduced a single pick mode in dominon I currently have 10 180 heros that I don't use would give me a reason to pick them back up and of they take gear score away them we need real new weapons not just reskins.
I have only two 180 gear stat hero, and my overall rep is 73.
To be fair.... gear doesn't actually matter that much. It didn't matter much before the S5 nerf and it matters even less now. It seems like it does but, outside of sabotaging yourself with purposefully terrible stats that dont fit your playstyle preference, it's going to be a difference of one hit for a kill or to be killed.
You all know I rant over this one specific gear stat quite a bit so those of you who have seen this rant before bare with me and sorry in advance for continually bringing it up.
You want to make gear stats matter but not be an instant kill so new players can catch up slightly? Take away defense penetration as a stat. The problem and reason that you need to be super careful to not get 2-3 shot killed is that we have a SINGLE stat that negates 3 fully maxed defense stats. We have an attack stat already, but in the name of trying to "fix" the turtle meta devs implemented this stat as a bandaid thinking to fix defensive passive play we need to get rid of defense. Long story short, this single stat negates everyone's defense stats to be the base stat. This game is very equal opposite force, just look at the advanced Rock Paper Scissors fighting system and you'll understand what I mean. The problem here is that (attack -> defense) isn't a thing like it used to be. It's (attack + defense penetration -> defense). The proportions are superiority off kilter.
Defense has become obsolete because of this. No wonder why everyone gets two shotted even more than ever before is before even with lowest gear you'd still have SOME added defense. Since the gear revamp even with maxed gear it can all be negated with one stat, and no mediator for the added attack boosts from feats and fully maxed gear stats. Same thing goes for revenge attack. If revenge is supposed to be to give yourself a chance to get away or tank through until your teammates come, why do we have more offensive and aggressive properties for revenge than defensive? Why can a Highlander and Shugoki one shot someone in revenge mode? It's defense penetration making defense obsolete and negating the only mediator between the character and the added damage that is attack stats, feats, and revenge boosts. Then you look at defense as a whole: we have 3 defense stats that all can be negated by one stat so essentially to be able to have more survivability in a fight we HAVE to get revenge or a feat that aids us, and the feats for defense vs offense are again severely disproportional. We have all these tools to make killing easier but no tools to combat this.
One stat is ruining what gear stats could be. Look at every single gear guide on YouTube. When they talk about armor, it's always the same comment: just go for defense as close 0 but not lower than. Doing so also does the complete opposite of what the change of gear stats was said to be designed to do: create hard decisions. For some characters there are very slight changes but in general it's all stam for arms, exhaustion recovery with defense secondary for helm and revenge defense coupled with defense secondary just to stay above 0. The only other true variation I've seen is helm: exhaustion with debuff secondary and to even out defense putting stam cost reduction with defense as secondary.
The stat just has no place in this game and I'm surprised that it isn't a concern like it should be. I guess maybe 2 shotting someone, especially if you get a good run must make people feel pretty good about themselves and maybe that's why it hasn't been brought up much or addressed on a more serious scale.
Rant over, thanks for sticking with it.


Astrid Oudheusden in her studio.
Astrid at work in her studio.
Some of the artist's works.
Above all, I love oil paint. The beauty of the colors is never met by any other paint, in my opinion. It has all the things united I find in other separate paints. Oil can be used thick, thin, glazed, opaque, and dry. I love the smell of the paint like a smoker loves the smell of the first lighted cigarette.
With "Office Stories," I investigate people who work in offices. "Nothing Personal" places me in the rather difficult position of working on demand. I invite people to come up with a demand, which may vary from a painting for above the couch, to an artwork that brings back memories of living abroad.
Up until now, I have made paintings for six different houses/people. It is a demanding series, and it shows me I am working from a source inside myself (or outside, I think it is all connected) that cannot meet other demands, such as how the painting fits with the colors of a couch.
When painting, I prefer silence. For the other occupations in my studio, I listen to all kinds of music. Bach is my favorite. His music is so clear and mathematical, it brings silence.
Around the corner is the Westerpark.
"The Dance" by Matisse (the one in the St. Petersburg Hermitage). I've seen it once and it made me cry.
Paul Auster, A. M. Homes, Philip Hensher, Iain Banks, Rupert Thomson, Tristan Egolf.
Luckily I don't have a day job. When I graduated I had to work as a receptionist and in a shop, but it didn't end well. I am totally unfit for it.
Oh yes; I use pencils, crayons, ink, charcoal, acrylics, gouache and other things when working on paper. On canvas I mostly use oil paint.
Why would painting be dead? Because fashionable people tell us so? Because we can't come up with anything original anymore? I am convinced there will always be painting as long as there are people.
Any brush will do as long as it is well made and doesn't lose its hairs.
I use palette knives for scraping my palette. In painting, I prefer my fingers to the knife.


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As softball players start deciding which gold teams to aim for, they'll start asking themselves what their chances are for a softball scholarship. And if they aren't, I'm sure as parents start to pull out their checkbooks to pay for playing on these teams, they're considering the question. After all, it would be nice if there was some financial return on all their investments in lessons, teams, and travel. However, if you're planning on using softball to pay for college, you might want to develop a plan B option because the odds aren't great.
What Are Your Chances of Playing in College?
The first step is being able to get on a college softball team. We're not even talking scholarships yet. According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, there are 15,544 high schools in 2017-18 with girls softball. In 2017 the Office of Postsecondary Education reports only 1,662 colleges offering women's softball–that's both two and four-year institutions. That means that there's about one college program for every nine high school programs.
The same sources tell us that there were 367,861 high school players and 32,444 participants at the college level. That means there are over 11 high school players for every college player. Of course, not all high school players will even make it to the varsity team but still, the odds aren't great.
As for those who make it to the college level, the chances of getting a softball scholarship are even smaller. Let's start with the fact the largest group of schools in the NCAA, D3, doesn't even offer athletic scholarships. Not all divisions of the NAIA and NJCAA offer scholarships either.
Furthermore, the NCAA limits the maximum number of scholarships. That doesn't mean that the school has to provide that number. Not all scholarships may be fully funded. Coach Shayne Lotito of Bryant University explains that "I know some D1 universities that have 1 scholarship and some that have 12 scholarships. It is not consistent within conferences either, some teams may have 6 and their conference opponents might have 12." And remember that when they say 6 scholarships, that's for the entire team, not per year.
Ultimately, even if players are good enough to play at the college level, chances of getting a softball scholarship are not good. And players who are recruited before starting high school still have to keep in mind the possibilities of injuries. Make sure you have an alternative plan for paying for college than just softball.


The Dog that saw the World Part 4 is the fourth episode of a dog named Timnay. She was bullied, saved, almost died and traveled the world. In this new episode Timnay will tell you her story of how she found Dogo People in the Northern part of Mali, hidden in the mountains. She will show you the way from Ghana, to Togo and Benin. Watch her adventures when she swam with hundreds of bats, checked out the coast of Ghana and looked for pineapples in the middle of the jungle.
How we got through? Let Timnay take you away in her adventures filled with love, excitement, laughter, sorrow, fear and strength. You can follow us on Facebook!
Missed the previous videos? You can watch them here.
Leuk filmpje. Zelf hebben we een hond uit Roemenië en 3 adoptiekinderen uit Nigeria. Veel herkenningspunten gezien in deze episode. Goede reis verder.


The International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF) mourns the death of Corrado Dal Fabbro, a former bobsleigh athlete, a senior manager of the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) for many years and the Vice President of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF) from 1992 to 2010.
Born in Pieve di Cadore on August, 4th, 1945, Corrado Dal Fabbro has participated in the European Bobsleigh Championships 1969 where he finished 10th place. Already in 1971 he finished second at the Bobsleigh World Championships.
At the XI. Olympic Winter Games in Sapporo 1972 he was the breakman of the succesful team Nevio De Zordo, Adriano Frassinelli and Gianni Bonichon winning silver in the 4-man bobsleigh competition.
After his sports career he started as the technical director of the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) where he supported the team Gunter Huber/Antonio Tartaglia winning the Gold medal in Nagano 1998. For many years afterwards he was also in a leading position within the Italian Federation as the national counselor for bobsleigh.
At the FIBT Congress in 1992, hosted in Lillehammer, Corrado Dal Fabbro was unanimously elected as Vice President for technical questions relating to bob & sporting equipment.
In 1994 he took over the position of Vice Preisdent Sports interim and was elected by acclamation at the FIBT Congress held in Treviso 1995. Corrado Dal Fabbro played an important role in turning bobsleigh and skeleton into a modern sport by reviewing sports regulations, proposing new rules and implementing modern sports structures. At the Congress in 2010 in Lake Placid he decided to retire due to health problems. Though he was no longer a Vice- President anymore he was always available when neededr – his knowledge and expertise in the sports was exceptional.
The funeral will take place on Saturday, 31st March, 2018 in Tai di Cadore at 3 pm (32044 Tai di Cadore (BL) - via Antonio Rosso 6).


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 Edith Santifaller (* 1932), italienische Tischtennisspielerin und -funktionärin
 Franz Santifaller (1894–1953), österreichischer Bildhauer
 Leo Santifaller (1890–1974), österreichischer Historiker und Diplomat
 Maria Christina Santifaller (1904–1978), Schriftstellerin, Kunsthistorikerin und Unternehmerin

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2.8 Beyond the Rules I: Opening the Black Box
Water Resources Management and Policy
Университет Женевы
Water management today is faced with new challenges such as climate change or the effects of human activity. Public and private stakeholders who are active in this field must develop new ways to better manage the water cycle "as a whole". The objective of this MOOC is to develop an understanding of the problems related to water management. Firstly, this course will define a resource and, more specifically, the resource of water. It will look at how water is used and the activities associated with it as well as any potential conflicts. The course will look at water management in detail through the analysis of the different types of rights and obligations associated with, for example, the development of a multi-sectorial regulation system or a watershed management approach. By the end of this course, our aim is to enable you to: 1) Identify the main issues and strategies linked to water resource management 2) Acquire the key reading material needed to understand the many variables (environmental, institutional and political) which affect water and which, in terms of management, may require adjustment. This course was developed by the Geneva Water Hub. Alongside researchers from the University of Geneva from a range of faculties, researchers from other universities and research centres will be involved in this course. Practitioners who deal daily with the political dimension of water management will also input into the course. This MOOC is designed for all those interested in the water sector. Prior training is not necessary to follow our program. The findings presented in this course can be easily reapplied to different contexts and to different scales of analysis. This MOOC is supported by the Geneva Water Hub and the University of Geneva along with the MOOC in « Ecosystem Services: a Method for Sustainable Development » (www.coursera.org/learn/ecosystem-services) and the one in "International Water Law" (www.coursera.org/learn/droit-eau). This course is funded by the Global Programme Water Initiatives of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). This course is also available in French : www.coursera.org/learn/gestion-eau
Policy Analysis, International Law, International Relations, Law
I learnt a lot especially when its to saving and managing water for the society...With increase in global warming water resource management should be taken seriously because water is life
I am really thankful to Dr. Christian Brethaut and Professor Geraldine Pflieger. Thank you very much for this wonderful course. Looking forward to meet you in another course.
Module 2: The Rules of the Resource, their Uses and their Circumvention
Businesses that manage water are guided by property law and public policy designed to define and coordinate all the demands on the resource. This second module aims to better understand the complexity of these two bodies of law through the framework of the Institutional Resource Regime (IRR). This framework is presented and then applied to two case studies (Swiss and European) to understand the rules governing water management in these territories. Finally, we will go beyond this framework to address the implementation of these rules by looking at examples of how the law is applied and examples of localised regulation. The module is concluded by a quiz worth 20% of the final grade. You must have at least 80% of the responses correct to pass the module
2.8 Beyond the Rules I: Opening the Black Box9:00
2.9 Beyond the Rules II: Law Activation Strategies and Localized Regulation Arrangements11:09
2.10 Case Study: Protection of Aquatic Ecosystem in the Canton of Valais (Switzerland)10:45
Christian Bréthaut
Géraldine Pflieger
Professeure associée
Выбор языкаАнглийскийФранцузский
[MUSIC] The last episode shows
the need to go beyond, to supplement the analytical framework
of institutional resource regimes in order to understand how the rules
that make up the institutional regime materialize on the ground.
This section will propose a way to open this black box,
to see how the rules materialise on the ground
by carrying out implementation studies.
To begin with, here is a brief overview of these
implementation studies. Within current literature, there are
two ways to open the black box. The first way is
a perspective that could be described as top-down and state-centric.
Ultimately, it's a legal and managerial vision. We will leave the rules
of the regime behind to see how these objectives
materialize on the ground. Really see how the rule is
applied with the reference point being the objectives fixed by the rule.
In parallel, we will look into relationships within the administration
with a vision that could be described as narrow and
hierarchical. We will be interested in how the top-level interacts with
street-level administration, how managers interact with
those directly in charge of the operations on the ground.
Finally, the focus is on explanatory factors,
the underlying factors that will affect implementation, factors such
as the ambiguity of objectives for example legal or the intensity
of behaviour change within the target groups, or the
length of the decision-making chain. We will also assume that
all actors have an implementation strategy,
have a desire to implement public policy or the rule created by the
institutional regime. This is called the assumption of implementation.
In this first school of thought on implementation studies,
the process is fairly mechanical,
a fairly mechanical process of transmission and application of standards.
In parallel, there is a second school which developed later,
a school that could be described as bottom-up and centred on the actors.
This school is focused on the problem around which interactions
take place between actors and around which different rules
are established to structure the behaviour of actors. It is not
because it is not part of the rule that there is no ability to structure the
rule. We will simply assume that the determining factor to explain
the action of the actors is a problem that arises in the field.
The focus is no longer placed on factors that could objectify
but on the actors and their behaviour, relationships of power,
negotiations between these actors,
how they will work together, negotiating,
resolving the conflict behind the problem that structures their action.
Unlike the first approach, there is no assumption
of implementation but we will consider a variety of strategies
as seen in the following section.
This process is a real social appropriation process.
It is a complex political game which engages the actors.
I am going to outline an approach that falls within this second stream.
This approach is based on three pillars.
The first pillar is a bottom-up perspective, from bottom to top.
It takes as a starting point, a socially constructed and territorially anchored problem
linked to the exploitation, to the protection
of the water resource. This problem is socially constructed
because it is the actors, their interpretation of reality
that will ultimately create or perceive a problem and a subsequent need for action.
It is territorially anchored because it's a problem that arises in the
field. It is not the problem defined in
public policy but more the problem built by the actors
at the scale of a watershed, at the scale of an irrigation system,
at the scale of a tourist resort to take the example of the video.
Finally, this problem represents the starting point.
This is not the rule which represents the starting point. The rules still intervene
in the process of this analytical framework. The second
anchor is a a neo-institutional anchor, which will
create rules to structure the action to try to overcome
the institutional determinism, that we spoke of earlier to truly
consider the institutional regime as a framework
to structure the behavior of actors and
their opportunities, that is to say, a framework which allows actors to capture
one or more of the rules to achieve certain goals.
To quote Mayntz and Scharpf, it is a context which is stimulating,
potentiating or restricting which either authorises of obstructs action but does not determine it.
So we see on the illustration that the starting point
of action is no longer the institutional regime but rather its
It is no longer at the centre of analysis. Rather the emphasis is placed
(and this is the third anchor centred on actors)
on the negotiation characteristics, the potentially conflicting
process of the implementation of public policies. And so, the black box
is opened around the notion of the game of actors.
Outlined in current literature, you have a
number of major authors who have employed the metaphor of the game of actors.
This metaphor allows us to breakdown the black box
around three variables. Firstly there is the configuration of actors.
Secondly power relationships and the strategies that are deployed by these actors.
The configuration of actors. This is just to have a general idea
of the actors involved in a situation, what is the relationship
between these actors, whether there are conflicting relations,
if the relationships are consensual,
are there any coalitions created between these actors, that is to say,
are there actors who come together to achieve common goals.
Next, power relationships. It is the recognition that all
these actors do not have the same capacity for action.
Some will be more powerful than others, some can afford to
adopt strategies that others can not afford to adopt.
And finally strategies. This is simply a way to account for
the behavior of actors, what are these actors concretely doing on the ground?
If we take the example of Téléveysonnaz, which was seen in the last episode
and you can link to the video in this slide
we can try to break it down in the following way to illustrate these
three variables, the black box of implementation.
In this case, the game of actors. If we take the first configuration of
actors, they break down in the following way. There are a multitude
of actors involved in the creation of artificial snow. First, there is the canton
that does not intervene but that is an immanent entity
that could be called on but that no one calls on.
Then there was the town of Agettes, represented in the video by its
President who should denounce the case to the canton
who should act to ensure that this illegal behaviour
does not continue. We then have the environmental community,
Pro Natura in this case. They denounce the case.
And of course we have Téléveysonnaz,
the lift company. An influential actor in the tourist sector.
One would also imagine that the hydropower companies might be
mobilized. They are mentioned in the report but they do not intervene
directly on an authority level. The situation is clear enough.
The report can be referenced to understand these relationships.
We talk about influential actors in the tourism sector, Téléveysonnaz
and others, the town of Agettes and Pro Natura who are resigned.
It is a situation where there is a strong economic dependence on
an actor, which ultimately, through the financial contribution to the town of Agettes,
through the important tourism role played,
a form of dependence has been created.
We have a relationship where the powers are very unbalanced between the actors.
Finally, if you want to see their strategies, well,
Téléveysonnaz bypasses the rule made by the institutional regime.
As we saw, this rule states that artificial snowmaking is forbidden
before 1st November. The ability to bypass the rule relies on the passivity of the others
actors. Ultimately it is the interaction of these three variables,
this singular configuration of actors, these unbalanced power relationships
and this particular strategy deployed by Téléveysonnaz that explains
the difference between the institutional regime and the situation on the ground.
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Joining Adam is the fearless, Robin Waite.
If you're a fearless entrepreneur, tune in!
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Craft Brewing and Distilling News for March 15, 2016
•Colorado's Oskar Blues Brewery has acquired Tampa, Florida-based Cigar City Brewing for an undisclosed sum. Under the deal, Cigar City founder Joey Redner will remain CEO of the brewery. Established in 2009, Cigar City is known for its Jai Alai IPA, Tampa-Style Lager and Florida Cracker labels and produced nearly 60,000 barrels in 2015. Oskar Blues, which operates breweries in both Longmont, Colorado and Brevard, North Carolina, produces around 192,000 barrels annually, with plans to expand with a third brewery in Austin, Texas this May. Last year, Oskar Blues partnered with private equity firm Fireman Capital Partners, and also acquired Comstock Park, Michigan-based craft brewer Perrin Brewing Company.
•Brooklyn-based Sixpoint Brewery has partnered with Guardian Distributors of Los Angeles to enter the L.A. metro market, marking its initial foray into California. The initial late-March launch will include both draft and cans of Sixpoint beers Sweet Action (ale) and The Crisp (pilsner), while Resin (double IPA) will be draft-only and Bengali IPA, Hi-Res (triple IPA) and C.R.E.A.M. (coffee blonde) will be available in cans only.
•Lenexa, Kansas' Union Horse Distilling Company, formerly known as Dark Horse Distillery, is launching a Reunion Straight Rye Whiskey and Reserve Straight Bourbon Whiskey. The small-batch, copper pot-distilled offerings are aged up to five years. Reunion (93 proof) is a 100% rye whiskey, while the Bourbon (92 proof) is distilled from a sour mash recipe. The newcomers join Long Shot White Whiskey and Rider Vodka in Union Horse's craft spirits portfolio. Union Horse's offerings are available in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
•Portland, Maine-based Peak Organic Brewing Company is releasing a new spring seasonal, High Note Belgian White Ale. High Note is made with the Warthog wheat variety from Oechsner Farms in Newfield, New York, as well as lemongrass, orange peel and coriander. High Note follows last spring's launch of Peak Organic White Nitro and will be available this March and April on draft and in six-packs of bottles. Peak Organic produces 25 beers, such as IPA, Fresh Cut, Summer Session and Simcoe Spring, among others.
Tagged : Cigar City Brewing, craft beer, craft spirits, Oskar Blues Brewery, Peak Organic Brewing, Peak Organic Brewing Co., Sixpoint Brewery
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